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able C 0 , as oo , .0 0 ,t the Wl' he .oti r,o° )ofbO ,eg r d tf ii 1 0" ate de ttt t eo w ijor )1 P ec nigh° • ire ice t be d nolojo , We, be ;ty, of• es ,votir s oC at) 4l ts f o tt iti 61 0 ges'i 1 , 0 0 00 . dical . 0 0 4 gra tri 4 e s ick bi ilebted,of ace s tei( t. t ) r ds. o f t oe ient 64 t ot orstiun iP I4 e ll on be rritin~~ to Vstetd yll,- 01 11 1° 1400 gyros t he l b t o art I ,o lc - rsh ire 0 be •tise j t 1113# , r ite il 61 4 ofthe of lo ot n peir'f,6o - pliil )1' TUE LORD LIEUTENANT. [Cowbell ;el from Yesterday's SuN.l 1211NNER A' l ' THE CONINIERCIAL BUILDINGS. C"aK, SEPT. 12. The LORD LIEUTENANT was b"terrained yesterday at the Commercial Ittildings il `l'e Merchants Of this City, Thomas Cuthbert, 291* President of the Committee of Merchants, 1 l'ie Ch air. About 120 Gentlemen sat do WI) to ;'!llner, Willa was as good as an uncommonly e c turtle, venison, turbot, and every other I - i le4C Y' With most admirable wines, could make ‘ f ileside s the Lord Lieutenant end his suite, Sir observed, among the guests, Lord Carl N i i ery, A t .N. Coltherst, M.P. lion. Mr. Hare, , [ l' 1.1" - General Gordon, Admiral sir B. Ha I tV ell s , C o l . 11. J • IM Doyle, Colonel Eveleigh, R. A. ~.. ()net Dalhiac, Dean Magee, Right Rev. Doc ..or m "Pliy, Doctor Pitcairn, &c. apTire following, muting many other loyal arid (j,Priate toastg, were given : liilsr tenerahlt Monarch. ‘ 4l Th s ! re the K (141 ti ing ghness the Princ e R egen t . -S ong an d Ch orus, 1- 1;s t 1-: 4 ` 1 "a, and the other branches of the Royal Fam k !l n 3 d , . ly eend'es_ xeellency the Lord Lieutenant, who ha t s hi s s o day. _ rem li to honour us with his-company .re,4l !I - 1 , es three.) Il etia.. l. , lai bot rose and returned thanks. He it att 'e.tl himself highly gratified by the kind and exp„er,'"g reception which he had on all occas ions h e i`srineerf since his arrival in the City of Cork i p osi l ever rig Should forget it. He concluded by pro st.,4tv - rvt..) ss to the Trade of the City of Cork.-(Three times l'.l l , Oil, D u k 5 York and the Army was next given. 'Kul. -}3l."ke of Clarence and the Navy. -Song and Chorus, Ii onannia. 14 ' 4 of , "ed Kingdom, ,may it ever continue the adminroa ti._, .ither !ltions and the pride of its people.-So ~, .1;r0,1s Apollo. ' li '.e ,i l4) '" and Co rp oratio nof Cork.... Song, Black Joke. t),,1,'-' („lonie.s aidCon-urce Sow , Ml's Well. tflll,-6plditt Cou'ntr3Mani' Arthur DEL of Wellington.- 1.1), - , 1 ,!°,?:'s three.)-Song, Britons strike Home. _ )0 . tarrit,:estrie, and the illustrious House of Tall t 14 k t aln ot, in the name of his son antfamily, di d ussed his thanks for the honour the company b , l' l s slt:„ ti : a nd trusted that as long as the House . ''e io -c . i ' e lbained, it should continue to merit 14,1 j''Pronation of such characters as those who ri,:„ lst Paid it the compliment ot their applause. itSir '4 l 3' to Ireland -Son Patrick's Day. -'4"l'saiiti!'-,Z"eitil and ihe ' Arr g n ' y of Ireland.-Song, British ' sces, and Agriculture, and its distinguished Pa -40.46 417bg, 'tieeri the Plough. ~,, 'kt the red hovereiens ; may their wisdom and their coun o - f ,14,111titio. 4Pproaching Congress promote the happiness Ih 4 e r (; it t : e u e n s tess of Talbot., and the fair Daughters of Erin stc-(ll,SiLiey:ile:ii.,.trnin Hallowell-Song, Hearts of Oak. 4 ' 4 I Gordon, and the Troops of the Southern The iteliresentatives of the City of Cork. itilSi,. ilPte.sentatives of the County of Cork. l • e l . e,l'iptniti Hallowell, General Gordon, Sir " .„. 411 "r C0' , 11 st, anti Mr. Hare, returned thanks "'d Ni s ' etel 'es, after these toasts respectively. '11 ) , 1 1 : ni ers and tire Irish Bar. Z * itil 4 t '4'l Lieutenant 'hen rose and proposed, thei r ." : v P'e Paratory observations, tire !malls 1. wli' i "'thy Chairman, 1 honlas , Cuthbert, Pals, le" wa s reteived with enthusiastic ap- T 1 • 't . „ l '," resid t , o . . I li iNiublencen and Genttemen of the County of *itlls::Lliided a 1 - 4, L , 1" '''), il,e°,llmercial Interests, and as they stand II i i , 14 e le. atni 1 , - Y ot vtr be dividd. tee t i . , Y . -,'''ilifi,ol4lltot rose, and expressed himselt -a " 1 1 V the milliner in which he had been It t"vdrds 'hit:l:lie behaviour of the citizens . of Cork II It. Il e li ( 1 4 : a s such as he could not lightly for elauvil;4l),l 1 , 1 4- 'Olinti in all ranks the utmost atlt alif_"'dtbr:,:;t,fli'ltering politeness, and was this - i aud tot ; 1.41 t hem for one tit the most a . gree i 1,, l'i ' life. I,''''',ll evenings wltich he had en j oye d 4, 1..4 his t , It vvutild have delighted hint to pro te 11) tbe Cit e b ut as lie was obliged to depart t,i ll 4 'iis eon Y at ii ve r y e ar ly Inoue next morning, . 11 1 unfe• 'Pel ted to leave them, which he din! 'g a r igheil reerp, He I deal by propos tulild ''st, to -.-• colic ti th e ~ ha ve , which no one there, he was sure ; el, -;itt, ' ' ''Y obi ' '' The Fair Females of lii:4 (If ( ‘ D ect 1011....._ "'Fee t r.. ) . k ;" which, of course, was drank k,,j.. ter "Its three. He left the room at 11. tk i .. 4 j oetl i n , Y reulained to a very late hour, and ' e lle tit. ' very good humour. The singing was kt I ..............• %i k r 1 Talbot ' ' ' Ci ,L. and suite left town this morning a t. t t t tt Hi :)(n his way to Dub"' He break as cif'lloptrit'`)Y• and will dine at Kilkennq with the . ''as,l Ossor His polite Y. 611 ColiViVial, 11., i , k 1 higlii • Y• .1,,,,e l e ft a very t rtb 1, 11 y digoified manners, I ; and a :, 4ptii • sticeeetled in e 1,4, 111 elision on the People of this City .1 11 6 ' Il ti . e kV Witi Itilliitig pOptilar , __. -I'ttlii, Professioq Of those honourable and eo",1 t:;la4lt 44:1.411 prilitipleg, in Church and State, whic h tl,l,ttt 411 tittles the surest means Of obtaining ih• tiqt-4v()(11.• His visit will be long rememb tro, i , h, "re he left Cork he transmitted 100/. 'tlst6:3'"l., to be di sposed of in charitable pur according to his discretion. CLEp-----------s'--------z-----._._____ T, `ICAL PREFER MEN FS. 4 qi, sa _..... - 11 tutt'daY lase the Rev. John St. A"hYn' , - w li'ttn• t o iastituted, by ihe Lord Bishop of lli (2 1. , , .° the Vicara•Ye of Crowns!, otherwise il'' JolsiNPl, In Cornwall on the presents, ion of bi'''' ttl "t• Anhui. II ' void by the death of I ) -T. M. Robin ••, _art. ll le ite•sort. 4 ' jg '"Nt Z . C• L. Green ' L. L. B. Rector of l'trilet;:t.,taffordshire, and Chaplain to Earl . , i , y, itl.". heen presented to the Rectory o f '11,141'4 v.O the county of Stafford, by John Coke, ..- 1 , 1 ) , 4t1 t• odhouse Villa, in the county of Non ~,,111 -.404, 4 , i 'A. Pobert tK. .s College, Cans l'tilt ~,5 adis)i„ 1 s i ° mg 4 „ 44 -kev„ k.: , " a Fello w of that Society. Vicar 4‘k, '1%414,0111'40es Borne Henville, A.I. A. ... ti 11.. ,Oxford', 41)(1 formerly fellow of New C(1 Vtlttguil , "tts been presented to the Rectory 41 l e li- 1 t "", H s In 1%40 `• " t s its. 41111„? of liXeter has instituted the Rev. 114 1, 4 , t1 , in Z 4 1 )) 4 1 • L. 11. to the Vicarage of St. ~,,yti :',sthe..betti°, in Cornwall, on the presenta ,c 4itev•34l:ltesand Chapter, void by the death , ,‘(: ev... t „. ....ennet, 'tit, Ille,, • I uir a b i b E . "c 1 kNe, ey,M.A. of Sidney Sit,s -Is. p i . . Inbrid "14:lit, ;oleasn. ge. h as been elected ACd -' 14 rite Isle aolfl(i‘litt aD pOintCd G OVernillent ti. REGISTER OF FASHION. ARRIVALS. Sir W. W. Wynne, Bart. at his house in St. Janies's-square, from Paris ; Lady Caroline Lamb, from Brocket-Hall ; Lady Jane Lennox, from the Earl of Bathurst's seat, Cirencester, .. , loncestershire ; Lord Macdonald, at his house in Welhech street, Cavendish-square, from his seat, Arrnadale, Isle of Skye ; Sir George and Lady Dallas, at the Prince of Saxe Co bourg Hotel, Charles-stre,t, Grosvenor-square, from their seat near Southampton; the Right Hon. Thomas Grenville, at his house in Clere!and-square, from Lord Grenville's seat, Drop m ore. DEPARTURES. The Dulie of Bedford, for Casitiobtiry Park, on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Essex; Captain and Mrs. Seymour, for their seat, Extun Pauli, Hants; General Hammond, for his seat, Plumptun, Suffolk. CHARGES. The Earl and Countess :il.%lexborotigh, from Buxton, to Methley Park, Yorkshire; General Sit Wm. Cock burn, Lady and bliss Cockburn, from the Continent,' to Brighton; Lord Melville, in Edinburgh, from a tour; Lord and Lady Hamp den, (coin their seat, Glynde Hall, Sussex, for Hampden House, Berks ; Lord Henniker, from his scat, at Worlington Hall, Suffolk, for Stratford House, Essex. SUAKSPEARE.—An ancient miniature has re cently been discovered which seems to evince marks of being a genuine portrait of our immortal Bard. It has received the decided approbation of the venerable President of the Royal Academy, and of most of the higher Members, as a work of art. It has, at least, as strong pretensions to be considered as a genuine portrait as any other that has hitherto been seen, except indeed the celebrated CHANDOS oil•paintirtg, which, has an authentic tradition attached to it. The valuable gem which has thus expectedly been brought for ward belongs to Sir JAMES BLAND BURGESS, who, being himself a Poet, must, of course, consider it as no ordinary treasure. SHOOTING MATCH.—A match for one hundred guineas, of a novel nature, took place on Tuusday, between Capt. GRANT,.OI Heston, near Hounslow, and Jos/As Loao, a keeper. The match was who should kill most head of game in eight hours, within fen miles of ground. The sportsmen starred in contrary directions ; the Captain taking a direction from Burnham, Bucks, towards High Wyc ,, mb. LONG crossed the river, and shot To wards Henley -upon-Thames. The Captain bag ged nine brace of birds, and three hares ; and LONG six brace and a halt, and four hares, by which he lost the match. GRAND MASONIC DINNER.—The Masonic en tertainment which took place last week in Dublin, in celebration of the Birth-day of the Grand Master, collected a very respectable pottion of the Freemason Fraternity. Morrisson had pre pared a dinner in his best style, wkich had the accompaniment of excellent wines, and in great variety. The Hon. Brother ANNESLEY filled the Chair ; and, after the usual ceremonial waste, gave '' The health of the Duke of Leinster," ap propriately introduced, which was received with acclamation, and toasted with all due honour, and every respect that the most cordial . feeling could confer upon it. His Grace made his ac knowledgments tar the distinction for which he had been selected, in a manner equally apt and expressive, and was loudly cheered. In the course of the evening, among the toasts which the oc casion suLtgested, the health of the Duke of Sus sex, Grand Master of the English Fraternity of Freemasons, was drank in a manner very compli mentary to the zealous devotion with which his Royal Hlghnuss- has attended to the general inte rests of the Craft. The health of the Duchess of Leinster, given by the Chair, and introduced by an allusion to the Masonic connection, was re ceived with enthusiastic feeling. The applause lasted for several minutes. The Duke offered his thanks for this favour, in language which ,;hewed how sensibly he felt it. About 12 o'clock his Grace retired ; .but the majority of the meeting remained until an advanced hour in the morning. During the night, several songs and glees, by Messrs. Jager, Smith, Weyinan, Ste. delighted the company. The Quay and Mall of Waterford have been lighted with gas during the last four nights.— This plan has long been looked to with great anxiety, and its execution has gratified the utmost expectations which were indulged, while its conti nuation, and extension through all the streets of the city, and its admission into the shops, promise to be attended with the most beneficial•consetlueu ces. The Quay and Mall may be regarded as ex hibiting at night an entirely. new scene, being so finely illuminated, that the inhabitants car► recog nise each other almost as easily as noon-nay. The works were constructed by Messrs. Graham, of this city. It is the boast of IVaterford to have so early adopted this measure, and it i. her pe culiar boast to have had it so ably and so fully accomplished by those who are numbered among her fellow -citizens.--((Waterford Chronicle) ' 1 1 t is a consolation to the industrious mechanic, and persons of moderate income, who are afflicted, to know they may haVe the best advice, gratis, if they attend at certain hours, namely, Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday mornings, until one o'clock, at the Medical Board, Great Charlotte street, Blackfriars-road. That thousands suffer front improper treatment is a fact—the latent seen of a dreadful disease lurks in the system, de stroys domestic happiness, and entails debility on the rising generation. The Medical Board claims the attention of those afflicted with Strictures, Fistulas, Cancers, Scrophulas, Nervous Debilities. Eruptions, ul cerated Throat, Pains in the Head and Limbs, frequently mistaken for Rheumatism, Nodes in the Shin Bones, &c. Messrs. COOPER and Co. after forty years' prac tice in various Hospitals abroad and in this me tropolis, are consulted at Woodstock -street, Ox ford -street, daily from eight till eight ; and at the Medical Board, Charlotte-house, Great Char. lotte-street, Blackfriars-road,precisely from twelve until eight in the evening. *** Ruptured Patients, whose tumours ex ceeded 24 inches, have had them returned, to the surprise of the Medical Profession. *§* A. side door, and private rooms for fe- CORN MARKET, CORN-EXCIJANGE, SEPT. !S.—We have bad but few fresh Arrivals since ikinnday, and the sales this morning., both in NVlleat and Oats, rAther heavy at Monday's prices ; Barley and Malt is steady ; Boiling Pease are dull, and rather lower. In Beans and other kinds of Grain there is no alteration. Foreign Wheat - Cos. 70s. Fine ditto - -78 s. tNs. English Wheat - 655. ;Os. Fine ditto - - -80 s. 83s. 0111 ditto - - - —s. Rye Fine ditto - - - —s. —s. Barley - - - - 455.505. Fine ditto - - - 645. 725. New ditto - - 625. 78s. Malt Fine ditto - - -90 s. 945. Whitel'ease (boilers) 70s. 90s. Fine dittu - 955. 105 s. GreyPease - - - 555. 61s. Fine Grey Pease - 6515. 70s. Tick Beans - - -68 s. 755. Old ditto - - - —s. —s. Small Tick Beans - 80:. 90s. Old ditto - - - —s. —s. Feed Oats - - - 31 s. 335. Fine ditto - - - 355. 375. Poland ditto - - 3 , 15. 38i. Fine ditto - - - Sas. 40s. Potatoe ditto - - 375. 435. Rape Seed 461. 521. per last. Fine Flow• - - 70:. 755. Seconds - - 655. 70s. PROVIDENTIAL ESCAPES. Three young men of very respectable connec tions at Jersey, !►ad a most providential escape a few days since. They went on board a small boat of not more than three tons, in St. Brelade's Bay, to spend the night in fishing ; they had only provisions to last them till the next day, when, about three leagues from the Corbiere Rocks, the wind freshened so much that with all their efforts, they could not regain the shore, and were blown to sea, out of sight of any land. The wind increased to a storm, and they had no pro visions of any kind but a small conger eel, of about 4 pounds weight, which the day before they had caught, and dried in the sun. In this state of distress and peril they remained 4 days and 3 nights, a prey to all the horrors of death,,which appear ed to them inevitable. On one side they were seized with the pangs of hunger and thirst ; on the other hand, they dreaded that every wave would swallow up their frail bark. On Thursday night, one of them (Jean De St. Croix) could no longer resist this accumulation of horrors, and fell into a state of perfect insensibility ; early on Saturday morn ing, the two other men, nearly expiring with hunger, thirst, and fatigue, were on the point of leaving their boat to the mercy of the waves, when they perceived land, which they knew to be the Jersey coast ; hope re-animated them, and after exhausting their last efforts, they had the happiness of getting into Saint Brelade's Bay.— Abraham Saint Croix and Charles Lee were so weak, that it was with difficulty they could be brought to Capt. Alexander's house. John De St. Croix, who had remained for two days in a state of insensibility, was carried to that hospitable man sion, where he and his companions received all the attention that their pitiable state required. Capt. Alexander ordered food to be given often, and in small quantities. John St. Croix was stripped, rubbed with hot flannels, and laid in blankets before the fire ; he remained all night quite in sensible ; on Sunday morning !►e began to recover his recollection ; he still remains very weak, but hopes are entertained that he is out of danger ; the two others are entirely recovered. A Lady of fortune from Brighton had a narrow escape from drowning, at Hove, on Saturday.-- Preferring the bathing there, she had been driven thither in her carriage, and alighted on the cliff. A machine was soon in order for her, and on her taking possession it was moved to the water's edge, when the attendant received an order to retire, but to return at a given time. This order had not been long obeyed, when the rope which confined the wheels .of the machine gave way, and the vehicle rolling down the decli vity, was soon immersed in the aea, with its fair inhabitant. Her situation fur some time was ex tremely perilous ; she was at length rescued by a poor man of the name of Harvey, and convey ed to her carriage, hers ervants till then being unacquainted with what happened, and the time not having elapsed for the bathing attendant to return. It gives us pleasure to add, that the Lady received no essential injury. The machine was floated many yards to sea, HARVY was re warded with ten pounds. INQUESTS. DREADFUL ACClDENT.—Yesterday an Inquisi thin was taken before THOMAS Snst.Tora, Esq. Coroner, at St. Thomas's Hospital, on the body of a youth named John Nash, one of the persons who was so severely burned, by the explosion of gunpowder and file-works at the manufactory of Mr. Mortram, in Mead's-place, Westminster road, the manufacturer of fire-works to Vauxhall Gardens.—(The particulars of this melancholy accident have already been detailed at length in this Paper.)—The Jury returned a verdict of Ac cidental Death. UNIORTU NATI3 ACCIDENT.—AnOther Lion was taken before the same Coroner, at the Raffle time and place, on the body of Captain Wil liam Bolton, of the Lord Hawke East India- man. It was stated in evidence that the deceased, on Tuesday last, went to dine with the Captain of an Indianian, which lay off the India Docks at Blackwall, alongside his own vessel, and he re turned to his own ship, as was supposed, a little inebriated ; the rigging of the vessel required some alteration, and the sailor not being so prompt to fulfil the orders which he gave as he wished, he seized the rope himself, when his foot slipped, and he fell down the hold of the vessel. The injuries he received were of the most extensive and severe-description, but as life appeared in the body the sailors carried him to St. Thomas's Hospital, where he expired. Mr. Tree, surgeon of the Hospital, explained to the Jury the nature of the injuries on the de ceased's body. We shall spare the feelings of our readers by not giving the recital. Verdict— Accidental Death. Friday, about ten o'clock, a porter started from a house in the Grass-market, Edinburgh, with a wheelbarrow, containing half a hogshead of whiskey, which lie drew to Haddington by ma rtini labour (a distance of between 16 and 17 miles), and returned to Edinburgh the satne even ing. It was for a wager of seven guineas. F(EDERA A PRICANA. LETTER 11. TO THE POWERS ASSEMBLING IN CONGRESS AT AIX. LA-CHAPELLE. ILLUSTRIOUS SoVaRRIGNs.—The treaties and laws made for the deliverance of Africa have failed, as I have shewo, to produce the desired effect. Site is not less the n►iserahle victim of the Slave Trade, than wl►en all the Colonising Powers of Europe, and tl►e United States of- Amer iea, sanctioned the commerce by their laws. Their common remorse, their penitential resoluti ,, os, their general or partial reformation in point of law, and even the Conventions and Treaties which some of them have formed with each other for suppressing the trade, have all proved fruitless.— The mischief rages as widely and as e►er. The iniquities and hoc►ors of the Lade are, if possible, even increased, and the provocation of fered to God, the just and compassionate Judge of the whole earth, is greater and more impious than before ; because it is no longer denied or doubted, or unknown, that the Trade is a gross violation of his laws. To this awful truth, I would more particularly invite your attention. Not only those who have abandoned the prac tice, but those who, strange to say, still persist in it, have proclaimed its guilty character. They have confessed with their national vnices, in the most solemn manner, in their laws, their edicts of State, and their public treaties, that the Slave Trade is '' repugnant to the principles of natural justice ;" (I) that it is odious " in itself, and loudly condemned by the laws of relighor and na ture ;" (2) that it is contrary also to " huma nity ;" (3) that it is a '' nefarious practice;" (4) and repugnant " to the principles of the enlight ened age in which we live." (5) But the ever-memorable Declaration of the Congress of Vienna is a still more solemn, public, and authoritative recognition of the sAme alarm. ing truths. The Trade is there branded as a crime, repugnant '' to the principles of humanity and of universal morality," and as " a scourge which has long desolated Africa, degraded Eu rope, and afflicted humanity." Such, Christian Potentates, is your own just and imperishable censure of the Slave Trade. A,, system of crimes and horrors, which two Euro. pean Powers still permit their flags to sanction in one half of Africa, and with which lawless indi viduals continue to scourge the whole of that vast Continent, has ,been thus most solemnly, and most righteously, condemned by yourselves, in the presence of assembled Christendom. The " principles of natural justice' and huma nity,"--the " laws of nature,"—" the principles of universal morality," what are these but other names for the Divine Law, written in the heart of man by his Creator, to disobey which is to affront the Majesty of Heaven ? Surely, then, it is not too much to say, that the provoCation to Almighty God, by those who per-. sist in this guilty practice, and by those who can, and will not suppress it, is now more heinous than before Violations of human laws are more contuma cious to the Sovereign that ordains them, and more loudly demand from him an exemplary chas tisement, when those laws have been proclaimed or notified, with a view to their future observance. So in this case, the Universal Lawgiver, the King of Kings, is more offended (shall I not say more insulted?) by the Slave Trade, because its repug nancy to his known laws has now been publicly confessed and proclaimed in the hearing of the whole civilized world. It was net to be hoped, indeed, that an appeal, however solemn, to moral or religious principles, would have any influence on the actual immediate perpetrators of the Slave Trade, whose• hearts seem to be incurably hard ened. That the dragging innocent men, women, and children into perpetual exile and bondage, from the sordid motive of avarice alone, by means of fraud, and rapine, and cruelty, and murder, should be a practice to sit easy on the consciences of men—of men too living in this enlightenedlage —in this civilized region of the globe—and call-. lag themselves by the Christian name—is certainly strange enough. 13nr the fact is notoriously true; and it can only be explained by ascribing to those depraved and cruel beings, as an effect of their in veterate and flagitious habits, an titter insensibi- lity to the fear of God, and to every moral obli gation.—lt is not, therefore, so much by those sordid miscreants themselves, as by the Euro peans who employ, and the Governments which ought to restrain diem, that the further aggrava tion of guilt here spoken of will he incurred. It is to you, august Sovereigns, and to the people of every nation of Europe, whose voices may be lawfully raised against this impiosts commerce, that the awakening argument is addressed. You are now called on to put a stop to the de vastatiOn of Africa, not only by your humanity, but by your reverence for God, and your regard to the honour of his laws.—All sin is an offence against the Supreme Lawgiver ; but sin publicly confessed and proclaimed as such by the offeadets themselves, and yet deliberately and systemati cally persevered in, is more than simple disobe dience. It amounts to express contumacy, and absolute defiance.—But there are gradations even in, impiety like this. Though the laws of God are all equally binding, there are some of them zo which he has been pleased to attach a peculiar sanctity, and to pledge himself, as it were, by a regard to his own honour, to vindicate in a spe cial manner their authority, and punish their in fraction. Such are his commandments against murder, or the shedding of innocent blood ; and such still more strongly, perhaps, his prohibitions, not of bloodshed only, hut of all violence and op pression, towards the feeble, and defenceless, and indigent classes of mankind, The light of nature might suffice to chew us, that such sins must be peculiarly offensive in his sight ; they are pi c-eminently odious even in the sight of men ; for what uncorrupted heart does not heave with indignation, when the poor and helpless are treated by their superiors in rank and (1) Treaty of Great Britain with France. (2) The same. (3) Treaty with Spain and Portugal. (4) Treaty with the Netherlands. (5) Treaty with France.